This June we took a trip to the Upper Peninsula in Michigan. We stayed in a house right on the north side of Lake Michigan. During our 7 days there we discovered science all around us. One of the cool things we saw was a porcupine! We were at Fayette Historic State Park near Garden, MI. After doing a bit of hiking we got back in the car to head somewhere else. While pulling out of the parking lot my wife points out a porcupine sitting on the sidewalk. He (or she) was just sitting there slowly pulling off leaves on a branch on the side of the sidewalk.
For obvious reasons we didn't get too close, but this was one of the highlights of the day for my girls. They may have seen a porcupine in the zoo before, but never in wild. I'm pretty sure that I've never seen a porcupine in the wild either!
The moral of this story? Keep your eyes open! You never know what you might find. In our case, a porcupine! :-)
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